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On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:40:02 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > KDE devs decided to take the risk and make the jump ahead of the |
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> > curve. |
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> Coca Cola went from Coke Classic to New Coke; at least they had the |
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> guts to admit that it was a bad idea, and reverse it. |
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> IBM walked away from their market leading AT. Rather than put a 386 |
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> cpu on the motherboard, they went with the PS/2 design, which bombed. |
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> Micropro *OWNED* word-processing with a DOS-port of their cpm-based |
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> Wordstar product. People were begging and pleading with them to patch |
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> it to recognize subdirectories. Instead, Micropro dropped Wordstar, and |
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> came up with a "user friendly" menu-driven abortion called Wordstar |
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> 2000. That was the end. |
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> Do you see a pattern here? |
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The pattern I see is that of selecting only changes that failed and |
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implying they are the norm. |
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Why not add other improvements that were so bad, like the switch from |
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floppy disks to hard disks, or CDs to DVDs? Companies try to predict |
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where the market should go so they can lead. No one gets it right all |
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the time, the ones that survive are those that get it right often enough. |
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The ones that are most likely to fail are those that never try to |
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innovate in case someone doesn't like it. |
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The important point is that KDE wanted something better, it's unfortunate |
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that it took so much longer than planned, but it would have taken even |
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longer if they had not tried. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. |
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